On 11 February 2010 17:47, David Paleino <da...@debian.org> wrote: > On Thursday 11 February 2010 17:08:30, SJ Fortune wrote: >> Hi Daniel, > > David, not Daniel :)
Oops, sorry. > Hello, > please keep the bug CCed :) > >> I see that you are looking for a maintainer for the libopenraw >> package. > > Yes. > >> I would like to offer my help. > > Great! > >> I have been working dcraw and libopenraw recently (I'm adding CUDA support). >> I couldn't see any bugs for libopenraw on the bug tracker, and it looks like >> the debian package is up to date. > > Exactly, the package is in good shape :) > >> So I suppose you are just planning ahread for the next release? > > Well, "for the next bug" I'd say. > I don't know much C++, and I fear not being capable of fixing any non-trivial > bug I might have filed in future. > i.e. I don't believe I'm a good maintainer sourcecode-wise (and that's why I > try to avoid maintaining C++ packages as much as possible :D) > >> How does package adoption work? Do you need to a debian developer (I >> am not one, and from what I've heard, the it is a long process). > > You don't need to be a Debian Developer, but maintaining a library needs some > packaging experience. > From your questions I understand this would be your first package. > I don't really feel like leaving a library to you yet (nothing personal :) -- > I just see how packaging libraries often bite newcomers). > I propose you to be a co-maintainer. This way, the library will be maintained > by someone knowing C++ (you) and someone capable of packaging it, keeping the > package Policy-conformant and the such (me) :) That's correct, I am new to packaging, so co-maintainer sounds like a good idea. What is different about maintaining libraries versus applications? Regards, SJ > > In case you're already involved with packaging, and are already maintaining > libraries, then I'm happy to leave the package to you. > > Have a nice day, > David > > -- > . ''`. Debian developer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino > : :' : Linuxer #334216 --|-- http://www.hanskalabs.net/ > `. `'` GPG: 1392B174 ----|---- > `- 2BAB C625 4E66 E7B8 450A C3E1 E6AA 9017 1392 B174 > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
